3M Company (NYSE:MMM)

Safe harbor.

If you need it, MMM makes it. They have a healthy dividend, while you wait for prices to catch up with their intrinsic value.

Over sold, ready to rebound.

Highly diversified, and they crowd out the competition in both consumer and commercial products. They can play with low margins that let them undercut smaller competitors.

This is not a stock that typically moves much, but it's underpriced now and will probably outperform most of the market in the early stages if this rally.

the future is not plastics, at least petroleum-based ones.

Solid company all around

repping Minnesota

The original post it note STILL works a little better than it's knock offs and the company is so diversified and stills is a brand of quality worth paying a little more for if you want a dependable product. Have to stay with this steady player, seems to outperform the indexes especially in bad times.

Company produce a very large number of consumer products and will do very well in a slow economy.

Diverse company with good, popular products. Oh yeah, it's well run, too.

yummmy

Well managed $25bn revenue business growing slowly, but steadily. Highly diversified portfolio of industrial and consumer products, numbering in the thousands. 12x earnings multiple and < 2x revenue with a 3% dividend yield.

Thers is nothing wrong with what this company is doing. It is positioned to weather any concievable crisis. Profits, cash and sales much stronger than most companies. It will be about the last large cap to go down.

solid company, will do much better once economy picks up.

Even without the unfair recent 50% decline, 3M would still be a market beater.

This is in a sector that is leading and it is a leader in the sector.

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solid recesion proof company

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